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2020 Olympics = Sports Climbing 16-Jul-2016 At 10:55:23 PM martym

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On 19/02/2010 dmnz wrote:
>surely skateboarding should be in the olympics if snowboarding is and gets
>the attn that it does

"An International Olympic Committee (IOC) session is set to announce on 3 August that [ sport climbing] will be added to the programme for four years' time."
"Skateboarding, surfing, karate and baseball/softball could also become Olympic sports at next month's meeting."
There you go.
http://m.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36811368

"35 million climbers around the world. The average age is 23 years old, with 40% under 20."
I wonder how that compares to chockstone users?

One more quote from the article:
"Sport climbing involves participants scaling permanent anchors, like bolts, fixed to the rock."